The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-22

! FLORIDA.
The Halifax Rifles have received new
/ guns
! At Sanford Harry Teasdale has purchased
/ Doyles stock Of groceries.
One railroad running into Palatka sold
/ only Soc. worth OF tickets at the Office at
that place in four DAYS this week.
! At Sanford r. H Whitner, better known
as Howard Whitner. has purchased the
stock Of T. b. Ball e. Co. and viii continue
the hay and grain business.
| Mail adyices from Bluff Springs announce
the formation Of the Pritchett Gin Com
| pany, and are TO the effect further that the
/ ginning and baling Of cotton viii soon CON-
mence at that point.
james K Clarke, of Savannah arrived
in Pensacola "Wednesday. His visit was in
connection with the insurance on his mill
1 property recently destroyed at MillYiew,
/ which has been satisfactorily adjusted.
Dolly Williams lcolored) on the plantation
Of W. c. Thomas dropped dead on last
Saturday. She was a large. robust, apDa-
/ rently healthy woman, and had just com
| pleted her duty of milking cows The pre-
sumption is that she had heart disease.
/ Telegraph operators make many bad mis-
takes. One Of their errors caused the ap-
pearance Of the following in the Orlando
Record: The correspondent Of the SAyAS-
| NAH MORNING NEWS in this city informs US
that III the dispatch which was sent by him
70 that paper contrasting the number Of
people who left Orlando upon the breaking
out Of the fever at Tampa, with the num-
Der who left last spring when the disease
made its appearance at Kew West. he wrote
| the word none" while the NEWS printed it
more thus conveying exactly the oppo-
site impression 70 that which he intended
Ha rat ha kav. h..
first made its appearance at Key West
many people Of this city left Orlando, while
none have left since its appearance IN
Tampa"
Near Cellar Point few days ago man
had his attention arrested by the rafting Of
two rattlesnakes IN a shrubby place 80 near
that he heard them from his house Hasten
ing out to see what was the matter he
reached the scene in time TO witness a fierce
combat between them. The serpents
had no desire to take each others lives. but
struck each other blows with each Of their
heads, making no Use Of their fangs The
spectator afterward killed both. These
venemOus reptiles are armed. In the upper
part of the mouth is a sack which contains
poison with an outlet connecting with the
oTifice Of their dangerous fangs four in
other riVeted TO the jawbone. and the poison
Squirts out one-siXteenth Of an inch Of the
point Of the fangs. which resembles a cats
claw. When they strike against an object
it presses this sack and elects the poison
through the orifice Of the fangs and spreads
rapidly through its victim.
The ruling of Circuit Judge Mcclellan at
Pensacola wednesday TO the effect
that the law constraining steve
dores to procure a license for the
pursuit Of their occupation is unconsti-
tutional, leaves the business open TO anyone
who may desire to engage in it, regardless
of competency or the fact that no license
has been procured At this writing, no ap-
peal from the ruling has been decided upon.
The ruling, however, viii not materially
effect the general welfare of the men or the
| contractors, 50 long as both bodies hold to-
gether and stand by each other The con
| tractors have the privilege of refusing to
admit 10 their association those whom they
desire TO keep out, and the determination of
the men 10 work for no one but an associa-
ton contractor, il adhered to. will prevent
the ruin to employer and employe that
they claim will surely follow a concession
70 men whose services are retained by the
merchants, and to the end that disruption
Of the existing policy now governing the
labor at Pensacola bay, may be brought
about
Pensacola Commercial: A reporter of the
Commercial, Wednesday, met Capt
this city on Aug. II last, with a cargo of
fertilizer for Andalusia, Ala. II will be re
menbered that, about a month ago, the
Commercial reported the fact that the yes
gel was at the time lying at Murder Creek
Bends, just below Brewton unable, because
Of the Instructions in the river, to ascend
any further Capt. Thomas informs
the reporter Shat the steamer is still
at the same place, and that no work is be-
ing done on the river, notwithstanding the
availability of 5000 for the purpose Capt.
| Gould. who is in charge of the snag boat,
admitted some time ago to a reporter of the
Pollard Standard Gauge, that the Com
nlercidt was correct in saying he removed
distinctions from some place In the stream
and deposited them in other places but the
points Of deposit were in coves and bends
and out of the path of navigation Capt
Thomas says that, If the bends and coves
were clear Of the rubbish, he could take his
steamboat up the river, and that it is those
very deposits which render the navigation
of the stream so difficult.
Josephine Davis, her mother, Susan
Robertson, and Ned Hall, are all in the
county jail at Monticello, and will remain
there until the next Circuit Court convenes,
as they are all mixed up in vile crime.
| On Saturday, Oct. |, it appears that Joseph-
inc Davis, colored girl, gave birth ia
living child, in cotton patch on the New
behavior plantation. She carried it to
cabin on the place, wherein was temporar-
| lily visiting her mother, Susan Robert
son, and placed the infant. wrapped in
a piece of cloth, on the ground next to
the chimney, and covered il with few bum
dies Of fodder. There it remained until
night, when the mother of the girl Susan
Robertson carried it off short distance.
and buried the infant probably alive about
six inches in the earth. On the Wepnesday
following some fifteen or twenty men Wis
tied the place where the infant was depos-
tied, among them Taylor johnson, the col
ored manager of the plantation. They UNI
earthed the infant, and found that it was
small but well developed male child There
upon Taylor johnson communicated with
the County Judge Puleston.) He repaired
to the place organized jury, but
could not hold an inquest for, upon an ex-
animation of the grave, it was discovered
that the body had been removed, 1t was
thereupon developed by the evidence of Ida
Medley Ccoloredl, who lived in the cabin re-
ferred to, that during Wednesday evening
Ned Hall had visited the grave, and was
seen by her to carry something OFF, and that
on his return he had advised her TO tell no.
body Of seeing him go to the grave. Ned
Hall is the reputed father of the infant, and
his purpose, probably, was to screen the